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 (part IV of “fear”) Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart The city crouches, steaming In the early morning half-light The sun is still a rumor And the night is still a threat Slipping through the dark streets And the echoes and the shadows Something stirs behind me And my palms begin to sweat Sometimes I freeze – until the light comes Sometimes I fly – into the night Sometimes I fight – against the darkness Sometimes I’m wrong – sometimes I’m right Coiled for the spring Or caught like a creature in the headlights Into a desperate panic Or a tempest of blind fury Like a cornered beast Or a conquering …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart Did I have a dream? Or did the dream have me? Set off on a night-sea journey Without memory or desire Drifting through lost latitudes With no compass and no chart Flying through hallucination Distant voices, signal fires Lighting up my unconscious And the secret places of the heart Dream – Temporary madness Dream – A voice in the wilderness Dream – Unconscious revelations  The morning says, the answer is yes Floating through a darkened mirror Deep reflections in disguise Soaring through lost altitudes Without wonder, without fear Symbols on a field of visions Behind the curtain of sleeping eyes On the instant of waking Another world of …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart I wasn’t walking on water I was standing on a reef When the tide came in Swept beneath the surface Lost without a trace No hope at all No hope at all Oh – sweet miracle Oh – sweet miracle Of life I wasn’t walking with angels I was talking to myself Rising up to the surface Raging against the night Starless night Oh – sweet miracle Love’s sweet miracle Of life Oh salvation Oh salvation I wasn’t praying for magic I was hiding in plain sight Rising up from the surface To fly into the light

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart On certain nights When the angles are right And the moon is a slender crescent Its circle shows In a ghostly glow Of earthly luminescence Earthshine A beacon in the night I can raise my eyes to  Earthshine Earthshine A jewel out of reach Form a dream to rise to  Earthshine Floating high In the evening sky I see my faint reflection Pale facsimile Like what others see When they look in my direction Earthshine Stretching out your hand Full of starlit diamonds  Earthshine Reflected light To another’s sight And the moon tells a lover’s story My borrowed face And my third-hand grace Only reflect your …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart The way out Is the way in The way out Is the way in… Out of touch With the weather and the wind direction With the sunrise And the phases of the moon Out of touch With life in the land of the loving With the living night And the darkness at high noon You can never break the chain There is never love without pain A gentle hand, a secret touch on the heart Out of sync With the rhythm of my own reactions With the things that last And the things that come apart Out of sync With love in the land of …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart Stratospheric traces of our transitory flight Trails of condensation held in narrow bands of white The sun is turning black The world is turning gray All the stars fade from the night The oceans drain away Horizon to Horizon memory written on the wind Fading away, like an hourglass, grain by grain Swept away like voices in a hurricane In a vapor trail Atmospheric phases make the transitory last Vaporize the memories that freeze the fading past Silence all the songbirds Stilled by the killing frost Forests burn to ashes Everything is lost Washed away like footprints in the rain In a vapor trail

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart Here’s a little trap That sometimes catches everyone When today’s as far as we can see Faith in bright tomorrows giving way to resignation That’s how it is – how it’s going to be It’s such a cloudy day Seems we’ll never see the sun Or feel the day has possibilities Frozen in the moment – the lack of imagination Between how it is and how it ought to be Here’s a little trap That sometimes trips up everyone When we tire of our own company Sometimes we’re the last to see beyond the day’s frustrations That’s how it is – how it’s going to …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart Like the fly on the wheel, who says “What a lot of dust we’re raising” Are you under the illusion That you’re part of this scheme? Seems like a lifetime ago You could look with pride On your world of dreams What is the meaning of this?  And the stars look down What are you trying to do?  And the stars look down Was it something I said?  And the stars look down Like the rat in a maze who says, “Watch me choose my own direction” Are you under the illusion The path is winding your way? Are you surprised by confusion When it …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart A wave toward the clearing the sky All this time we’re talking and sharing our Rational View A billion other voices are spreading other news All this time we’re living and trying to understand Why a billion other choices are making their demands Talk of a Peaceable Kingdom Talk of a time without fear The ones we wish would listen Are never going to hear Justice against The Hanged Man Knight of Wands against the hour Swords against the kingdom Time against The Tower All this time we’re shuffling and laying out all our cards While a billion other dealers are slipping past our guards …

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart Pack up all those phantoms Shoulder that invisible load Keep on riding north and west Haunting that wilderness road  Like a ghost rider Carry all those phantoms Through bitter wind and stormy skies From the desert to the mountain From the lowest low to the highest high  Like a ghost rider Keep on riding north and west Then circle south and east Show me beauty, but there is no peace  For the ghost rider Shadows on the road behind Shadows on the road ahead Nothing can stop you now There’s a shadow on the road behind There’s a shadow on the road ahead Nothing can …